Mexico Proposes Transsexual Rights

[Kadie]

Mexico Proposes Transsexual Rights

Thursday, January 25, 2007

(01-25) 19:21 PST MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --

A Mexican congressman said Thursday he will submit a bill in March that would amend the country's constitution to guarantee the rights of transsexuals and change civil laws to ensure they can legally change their name and gender.

David Sanchez Camacho's bill would insert a paragraph into Article Four of the Mexican Constitution stating that "every person has the right to the recognition and free exercise of their gender identity and their gender expression."

Article Four currently guarantees equal rights for women and men and states the rights of children and families, but it does not mention homosexuals or transsexuals. A transsexual is a person who has undergone a sex change operation or whose sexual identification does not correspond with the gender at birth.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/25/international/i192105S02.DTL

[knight_of_the_star]

1. And we say Mexico is backwards

They are doing better on the rights of all their people than we are.

[ComeAndTakeIt]

2. So

Mexico, a so-called "developing" country (developing into what?), with a "conservative" president, is, once again, ahead of us.

We should be ashamed. All of us, even the Backwash.

[catnhatnh]

3. Add to this that in Spain...

they are repudiating a false image of female physique by removing anorexic models and more recently undersized maniquins and you come to the conclusion that many countries both old world and new work to improve the lot of ALL their citizens even if they have no space missile program.....go figure...